>> indeed. >> don't let t haters get you down and you tell it like it is. if you are no ver dyewood date you. std in line. it is a long line. [laughter] u would t have to stand along. we do th becau timeis tight i will e li money with melissas next. >> congratulations to liz. how exting. i'm melissa frcis and here's what's money tonight. finally the real cost o falling off the cliff, no games, no fuzzy math. the democrats and republicans have thrown their cards on the table. we are going to line them all up and crunch the numbers so you can really see what you think best option is. it may surprise you. plus, day 7 o the strike shutting down the biggest pts in the countr think it doesn't affect you? all the holiday presents you

ordered coululbe stuck out at sea, oh, no!. we'll explain it coming up. egyptian presint morsi forced to plea his palac after tensf thousands of protesters battle police outside. morsi's days could be numbed per. we'll talk about the impact here at home. even when they say it's not it iss always about money melissa: look at the d's market headlines, wait and see the name of the game on wall stet. they watched the latest sparri over the fiscal cliff. stocks weighed between sitive and negative territory. shares of netflix soaring re than 14% you wow! the compan announcedexclusive dib shun deal with disney. ey will get first run reaming rights for disne films benning in 201 gold prices losing their

shine. the commodity tbledelow $1700 a ounce hitti a one-month low. >> to our to story, no bias or bul oney" will lay it out for you. all the talk about can't fall off the fiscal clf, we say why not? it may not the worse option? maybe it is. none of them stop the problem. we'll take a look. here to crunch t number, stephen hayes, fox news ntributor andwriter for he weekly standard." thanks for coming on to brave the math. bothides get so emotiol here. it is not abt emotion, it is about the numberand what will save this country. oking at the real nbers the fiscal cliff. werojeed it out over 10 years if we sow you the big fufull screene made and numbers look pretty scary from tax perspective ther if we went er the fiscal clit would increase taxes 5.6 trillion. that is 10-year period. fairly say no one believes

we would staon the road for 10 years. i want to do it so you do side by side comparison. spending cuts 1.2 trillion. the president wants to raise taxes 1.6 trillion. cut spending by 600. the house plan looks like sort of a flip-flop of that. what do you think of all these numbers. what do u make of it? what is your first impression? >> i think the point that you made is almost in passing is very ey point. thesese areprections. the 10-year projections. when was last time in washington 10-year spending projections actually came in at or low what the projections wewere met to be it never happens. sames true o the revenue side wit taxes. i think the numbers we're lang out here are probly the quote, uuote best-case scenario terms of what could actually hapn. just in terms of the pure math. not in terms whether or not it is good poli, just in terms of pure math. one reason going over t cliff looks more attractive in terms of bottom line numbers because there is that huge tax number now, there are all sorts of reasons beyond that --.

melissa: w i that, to ise that much revenu a gi it to the government? i don't understand why that is apaling? >> it is not aealing to me. melissa: okay. >> it would ap peelin from a math perspective because the number is bigger. but th proem is the number won't that big no matter what happens. you can talk about dynamic scorin look atifferent ways revenue won't be revenue it is projected t be. you're talking about something that would do tremendous dage to the domestic economy. evybody agrees with this. president ama as president at lst twice made the argument, raising taxes including raisin taxes just on the wealthy would hurt the economy. he is doing somethinghe previously said would hurt the onomy. melissa: that is ablutely true but plse,,guys, show me th full scre another me. on the spendg side of the ledger none of those cuts are big enough to make any kind of a difference whether we're talking about going overhe cliff talking about even the gop

plan. if you keep in mind we're spending $4 billion a day that we currently have a debt of $16.3rilli. depeing on whose estimates u look a we'll have a deficit 1.1, 1.2 or$1.4 trillion year. >> yes melissa: none of those thin curb the spending we're doing. >> no, right. melissa: that is what i thoughwas shocking and distressing about crunching these numbers. >> y'r absolute right. look at iscal cliff debate, e math is fine to go through it but t most portant question in my mind will there be serious structural eitlement reforms. melissa: right. >> t kinds of reforms that will yield savings well down the road, even beyond, 10, 15, 40 yea windows we're talking about. what are the structural reforms at would produce those kinds ofesults. those are only this we should be clear. the oly tings that would actually maka difference. the kinds of spending you're

seeingo a great eent on the fiscal cliff and president's pl and lesser extent to the republican plan, largely disctionary spending cs. a lot coming out of defense. these are not longerm ructural chaes t will put on a path to a balaed budt. that will not happen. melissa: the other thing that struckme about the graphic when you look at it, the threat f from republicans hey, we would rath go over the cliff rather than take the president's deal, to me doesn't look terribly credible when you look at actual numbers. unss you take into perspective we're not really going overor years. but it is just going over the cliff is so focus on raising taxes, on absolutely everybody and spending cuts are really nothat imprsive in tes of getting, you know, the gap down smalle they say if you compare it to the white house plan they would rather g over the cliff. i'm not sure that is really credible given those mbers. what do you think?. >> way some rublicans not l, growing number of republicans are looking at this, assigningle to the president, making clea this

t president'slan and they don't ha anything to do with it is politically more benefial for them both in the short-term and the long term, rather than to go along with something on the tax side that's not, that is goi to help blur theontrast beeen republicans and democrats. in theong term as we were saying isn't going to produce the kind of results onhe spendin side that will actuay make muf difference. melissa: okay. >> their view, let the president own it. we don't want toeal with this. melissa: steve, you get an "a" for math..3 thanks for coming on.% we appreciate it. >> fir timen my entire life i got an a for math melissa: we crunched cost for each plan. my next guest says there is in fachehe sa the republicans are waging a wa on working people in america. sheilajackson-lee is democratic congresswoman from texas. she joins in a fox business exclusive to tell us why. congresswoman, thanks so much for ming on the show. let me get your reacon to what youust heard? >> melissa? melissa: were you able to

hear the discussion that came before you? we were talking abo comparing al the plans side by side, whher it was going over t cliff or it was the rublican plan or the white hoe's plann at we shoulddo to avoid going over the iff. the main point we ce to at the end no of it really does anything to ckle the debt and decit. what do yo thin about that? first of all, melissa, one thing i want to say to the american people we're all unified, and that is completely different matter just to say syria will not t weapons of mass destruction dtroyot only their peoe but those around the surrounding areas. we'reunified on that issue. i ed to say that. i thanyou for your courtesy allowing me to do so. melissa: we appreciate that. that is really important issue we're also focus on here. thank u for that. >> thank you. i serve on the homeland security commiee. we have been in meetings all day. i was abl to listen to some small measure of the diussion. let me say where we are today. no one dagrees ther should not e a discussion

on entitlements. whatre absolutely opposed to as democrats, ranging from conservative to moderates to progresves is preservationf medicar, social security and frankly medicaid. d that social security has nothing to do with the deficit. 2037. solvent and until medicare is solvent until 2024. u think where we're at, i know as i listenhen the question would the republicans get anything, i don'tven wa to use the word conceding coming together on behalf of the erican people where 62% believe on november 6th when the race was over the vote was really on whether or not shoulde a fair tax burden on those --. melissa: i'll give that to yo les go ahead and raise taxes. say we do that. that doesn't get us close to solving the problem. mean we still have $16.3 trillion in debt. we are still running $4 billion a day beyond what we're making.

we this huge problem this country. if it was a house you wuld throw uppyour arms in distress say, my god, we can never y all theseills. that is sort of the point. >> i'm not in distress on that. first of all with the tax rrlief for 98% of the americans, wel turn a reasoned amount of a trillion upwards back into the treasury. that is the first st. secondarily, a lot of economists will make it v clear that at a time of a recession of sorts, when we're trying to move out of nongrowtand movento more grow which is really the key element is no time to b use a chete on spending. what you need to do is be reasonable ere is $16 trillion i agree with you. remeer we had $5.6 trillion surplus in 2001 from the clinton administration. here iseasonable proposal. liss you say we'll put trilli dollars into the treasury over 10-year period? that doest even cover the increases in spending? >> b, we're not finished.

first of a we'vealready seen as of august, july, a a trillion dollars in spending cuts. but more importantly, we're at 50ear low in non-defens discretionary spending. the government is not spending. it is just we're a larger nation, one of the lgest nations inhe world. so we've got to get a unrstanding that america is a country th is not ing to go backo the 1950s. wee always going to searching and growing to make ts country better and have a balanced enomy. so what do we do? we start, melissa, because over the last decade evious to president obama, we have spent like, we are running water. two ws and bush tax cuts. melissa: we afree on that. >> bush tax cuts. melissa: we have spent way too . this plan doesn't basically entitlement spending. we don't get our snding, with any ofthese three plans. even going over the cliff we

don't get the spendin in order. i will giv you the last word. th we go on. >> the issue with the republicans they're losing is. they're losing the argument, the debate, they're losing everythi. what we need to do is, to respond to the question, what do we do now in three weeks? let's go aheadand give 98% of the american people a tax t. none of us are ignoring the viability and importance of looking at entitlement reform as it relates to savings getting rid of waste fraud and abuse and other aspects. i will not tolerate increase in eligibility or raising the age but what republicans are doing is, they are putting theissue taxes and theye not telling the american people that the enlightment reform and tax reform is ane orissues thatan be discussed in 2013 in deliberative manner liening to you constituents. that is the key. melissa: we're out of time. >> that's is the key. melissa: thank so much for coming on. i hope you talk to usbout

that iimportant ise. >> i would be delighted. we'll get this resolved. we don't have to goo over the cliff. melissa: next on "money", w a strike of the two biggest ports in the u.s. directly affecting you and your wallet this holiday season. you want to hear this. violent protests portedly lead to the egyptian president fleein his palace. what it could mean here if his rul crumbles before your eyes. what it could mean comin up. ♪ . you stl think you're colder than me? nah. don tell me. tell tiny! [ ice craling ] [ knuckles craing ] and who are you supposed tbe, back-up? handle it. what you looking at? ! cat-like reflexes... whoa! [ ma announcer ] the coors light silver bullet pint. it's bigger. it's resealable. it's still the colde.

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♪ . melissa: well u might not think the huge strike the two biggest prts in the countrydirectly impacts you but think about this if you ordered anhing laly, and we all have, christmas or hanukkah gifts you may not get them in me. more than den ships loaded incargo are sitting doc in california and have been for the past week. both sides reportedly agreed federal mediation in the strike but close to a llion doars a day is stl beg lost. we have the president of the harbor trucking association and 32 of his 35truck drivers are out of work as a result othe strike.

he has aaso been unable to deliver gos to businesses inhis area. fred, do youhink the federal meddars will be able to resolve this strike? >> our fingers are crossed, melissa. this is imrtant. we need to get this thing over quickly. melissa: fred, what has it meant you personally? >>t is hard to account for what the cost of this is. it probably won't accounted for until after the strike over whenll the rifications hav dom noted down buttit is always devastating to me personally. and it is worrisome for me about my employees a my drivers. melissa: we look at numbers that are involved here an everyone has their estimate and they're arguing or whose esmates are right but what we see is 1.2 million jobs are supported by the ports. 400 billiois in goods move through the ports in 2011. so when people say shutting them down is a billion dollars a day or more,hat sounds like a very

at the same time, it is about about 800 members of a clerical union are working related to thepo. it is that they make $87,000 a year. $41 an hour. when benefits are factod in they have annual compensation of $165,000 a year. they are the ones started this strike because they feel over time their jobs will disappear as th work is automated. the longshorem joined forces wh them in support of them. what do you think about the case that they're making? >> not going toake a side in this negotiation. i have feelings for both sides. our goal is to get them together, workit out, and get us all back to work. melissa: what does it me tousinesses in the aea when you aren delivering goods on those tcks? for example, what would you have done in the past cple days that hasn't gotten done? >> there is hundredsf containers sitting the harbor that we haven't delivered. i've got manufactured goods

going to a warehouse that distributes them all or the uned states. it is not getting their goods. their suppl chain has dried up. you've got consumer goods that are certain to h t elves at christmas. where the clock tickg on tha is it going to impact their sale certainly it will. melissa: at thsame time your drivers make about $200 a day. while they're not out there driving. are you still paying them? >> no. unfortunately i can't pay them. weave to lay th off on the days that they're not working. melissa: so do you have any idea what they're doing instead? have they found anythi to do? or are the families out that counting on? >> sadly, they will come into the office and say, the first pa of their shift and say, are they, are they back to work? can we go work today? all we cando is shake r head. -pbut they're checking in every day with us. no, they don't have other work. no, their job isriving.

melissa: what would you say to people on both sides right now if the were listening and watch the show what would you tell them? >> i would urge them to sit the table and be reasonable. be reasonable in your expectations. we're in down economy. you' gothousan and thousands of people dependinggon you to work thisut. let's get back to work, guys let's make this economy grow. lia: is there something else that could be done in the long run? people tha are shipping through this port get burned is there another optn? because some of them made the argument, 40% of the cargo in this country moves through this port. no matter what people shift through this la giving the people that are on strike a whole lot of leverage? >> good point. we're always concned by diversn to other ports. we're concerned about diversion to prince rupert where the u.s. gets no money out of movement ofoods coming to the united states. but il th southern california are is suuh a

large consuming ar it will always have a decent percentage of cargo coming through here but the incremental cargo is significant. if you divert 10% of the cargo away from los angeles it would be significant in the lo of jobs in sthern california alone. melissa: fred, thankso much for coming on the show. we appreciate it and best of luck to you. i hope this gets relved on. >> thank you very much. melia: so here's the questionf the day. should the striking los anges long beach port workergo back to work and savehe holida? we want to hear what you think? like us on facebooko facebook.com/melfrancisfox or follow me on twitter @melissaafrancis. coming up o "money", egypt's presisident reportly runs from his palace as protesters rage outde. we have details coming up next. why doctors across the country are getting queasy over the fiscal cliff. you need to know how this affects your wallet. ve interesting. do you ever have too much money?

melissa: now onto the middle east. egyptian president morsi reportedly forced to flee his pa todayfter thousandsf gry protesters rioted nearb police fired tear gas on demonstrators. thsituation is getting more and more heated here to talk about impact of all it, we have the vice president of foreign and defense policy studies wiih the american entprise institute. welcome back to the show. thank you for joining us. thank you. melissa: let me get your reaction what is going on totoday. first in egypt. reports he left the palace. is that meaningful to you you know, i think it is probably jt discretion on his part. they're firing. there is a lot of violee there. people are climbing over the fences. suspect rather than fleeing the palace as it has

been made to sound in certain headlines he is just actually getting out of the way of tisonfrontation. melissa: it soundsretty serious. one of the points you make from one perspeiveshows democracy is in action. before the protests began a lot of peoplemade prediction we would see many protesrs out there in support of morsi. to them and what else to go out and protest. seems like there are a lot more angry protesters out there than ose in favor of presiden morsi. looks like he is losing at least some control. what happens, who is next in line if something happens? >> wl, i don't think there is anybody next in le. part of the problem that we're seeing morsi over stretched his authority last week, immediately in the aftermath of negotiating a peace between hamas and rael, he, issued a decree giving himself almost

absolute power saying his executive decrease were not, were not to be second-gueesed by the court. and that is really wh brought people t into the stres. thatand forcing a constitution through in 24 hours written solely by islamists. so we ha a problem in egypt. meliss absolutely. our interpretation of the arab spng no matter which country we'r looking at, uld you, the sds o democracy e beingspad in the middle east. we're seeing more intense islamic regime take over almost erywhere and more anti-west. what happens from here? >> i think really the biggest problem that we see in places lke egypt and elsewhere ere there have been pro-democracy revolutions i that the islamists think, oh, well, we had a selar dictatorsh forhe last 30, 40 years. now it is our turn to have a ismist dictatorship. the problem people out i the stres demanding thee3 ouster of leaders like

mubarak aren't going to and for it. e problem on the other side, theyave no real way of expressing themlves. so every time there's a problem,hey' all out in the streets. yo can't run democracy through mob rule no matter who is in chge. melissa: then you look at the situation in syria whic is, you know, even more serious by a l of regards. we hear there are now maybe, could see chemical weapons being deployed there. what do you think about that? how should the u.s. respond now and what does the next regimeook like there? that ianother place where it looks like it will be even more anti-wt. >> i think you're absolutely right. the problem for us inyria is that we've be sitting on the sidenes twiddling our handsor so long tha no matter who comes to power in sya, a we should have littledoubt assadis o his way out. i think we' toward the endgame now. no matt who comes to power they are going to be so hostile to the united states because they were fighting for their freedom, fighting against guns, weere ing

nothing. melissa:eah. we did nothing t help those that bashar al-assad in there hurting and oppressing and killing. >> no. melissa: thank you so much for ming on. we appciate it. >> it is always pleasure. melissa: up next you think phe fiscal cliffis giving you a headache? we'll tell you why taking the plunge is giving a lot of doctors full-on uers. > plus california's plan to be the green energy leader could take businesses an consumers out at the ees. a bipartisan report warns governor jerry browno step in. the head of it is here to explain wh i feel like h is not going to. we'll se "piles of money"oming up. jerry brown is not going to step in. ♪ .

♪ . messa: well it is definitely appropriate it say concerns overthe scal clififf have hit a fever pitch but believe it or not doctors could be facing the worst of it. they could be hit by a 29% in medicare reimbsements on january 1st. that is only part of the problem. another part how this turns aroundnd hits you and your wallet. joining me to dissect the impacts dr. marc sgel fr the fox new medical a-team. great to have you back on the show. >> good to be back with you. melissa: let's get right to it. i love the numbers. let's break it down. doctors face a 27% cut

papay for medicare patients as part of t formula. >> that is called the sustained growth rat some genius in 1997 when they put together the bance the budget act, hey, doctors should be penalized if the amount of tests order is grear than the growth of the economy. basically if an mri is very expensive, i have to order it, i get penalid forfeit is more expensive than it shoulde. that doe make any sense. doctors are supposed to order test on patient need, medical necessity, what is the actual cost. should consider that. patients should consider that. if we get penalized7%, we can't accept medicare especially at time --. melissa: what is the practical implition? ll the pson who does the mri charge 20 7% less? >> absolutely not. this is time medicare will be more and more restricted. under obamacare the will be more regulations. only way i can rk with

medica having freedom to order tests aged patient needs who might have medil problems. if you take away freedom a 20 he ve 7%, -- 27%. even american medica association who backed obamacare, many doctors will walk away from medicare. >> will not accept patients. >> i wi not work for medicare. i will take care of you but ha to pay cash for this. medicare patients can do that, see a doctor and pay cash if they have medice unless they o out. melissa: this is the first step down the roa to create a two-tier system. if you have money y see a premium doctor you can p. if you're on medice y see someone else who will accept the doctors. >> that is the two-tiered syem. it is already moving in that directn even beforehe fiscal cliff. even now because doctors e secret getting cut, public is not aware of this. i have a cardiologist iend i have dinnerith all the time. my cardiac echo are paying me $270 for it and used to

pay me $580 two years ago. the guy traed tore ten years before he couldo this test. cutting people in half for doing this kind of work with all of the training that went into it doesn't make financial sense. melissa: talk aboutore things on the list. thedoctors face an ditional 2% cut in pay for medicare patients ii we go over the cliff. what is that on top of the 27? >> the 27 is sustained growth rate formula. the 2 is part of t fiscal cliff, sequestration due to the fiscal cliff. melissa: at the same te thesdoctors at end of the day end up paying higher income tax after what they're maki at work is cut. when they get home and the government comes back and takes a bigger bite. >>melissa, your viewers many already faced wi this 50,000 or abo tax that is going to occur if thi isn'solved. i want to point out physicians this is gross fire, manyy physicians have a lot of expenses hidden in that. they're not making $250,000. the cost of machinery. cost of tests. cost of keeping offices

open. every smalbusinessas the problem. doctors will get in the positiono say wait a minute, i can't afford to ke care of tse patients. maybe they go t the hospital. melissa: on p all that the doctors are affected the health care act's restrictions. >> theyill not be able to offer certain technological solutions because insurance won't pay f it. i want to order thattest but insurance won't pay. i'm still liable even if i can't order it. obamacaris squeezing us already before this issue comes up. melissa: the bottom li, you see fewer and fewer pele going intthe field. when you see how hard it is to make money and make back what you spent on becoming a doctor. >> i want to end on a positive note. melissa: okay. >> i want to tell you people that love medicine doit no matter what. just like you love what i do. i lo what i do. i keep doing it. i wouldn't count on the government counting on me doing it for free. we're getting there. melissa: a charity. coming up on "money", california's plan to be number one in green energy could end up squeezing

serious ugh out of busisses and consumers. we'll talk about maybe this is not ch aright idea. at the end of the d its alabout mne and dr. egel. ♪ .

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melissa: statewide green ergyrequirements could end up costing california a lot of green. a new nonpartisan report from the little hoover commission says the golden state is rushing into being the new green state way too quickly. costs from all these new policies could add up, slamming consumersnd bunesses. the commission's executive director joins me now with more. so basically you're asking the government to sit down and figre out how much this is going to cost people, is th what you're after? >> exactly. th commission started from the point of view that the starting point was, the ab-32, the greenhouse gas reduction emission reduction act t plus the goal to aieve 33% renewables by 2020. the question that came to the commission was, did we have the organizational structure to achieve this

the commission started to look into that. the commissision came to the probly, we heard from witnesses said we could mt the renewaes goal but the question came up costs and reliability. andhe commission found that we did not have an up-to-date assessment of how much all-in, all of our --. meliss we're just flying ahead with this plan and we have absolutely no idea what it wl cost the average person, is that what you're saying? >> we have estimates for part of it. because of our vulcanized govevernance structure here, we have the puc, we have the ergy commission, we have independent system operators, we don't have a way to look at the whole thi all at one ti. so we don't have a way to take in the totality of costs including tranission and --. melissa: your basic conclusion that it will cost a whole lot and people see the number they will be shocked and horrified, are

you say that is at is going to happen. >> no. will cost. see how much it we don't know how much more. tnk it is important to prepare rate-payers and businesses a t best way to do thats to have a sophticated, thorough analysis of what everything all-in is going to cost. melissa: so you went to govern jry brown and ssid, hey, listen youuys have to come up with an idea how much this will cst and disclose it to people and so they can make anducated decision whether or not this makes sense and atas the respse? we haven't heard a response so far. they they have the rert. they said th're giving it a read. all our recommendations are just that, they're recoendations. the governor is in the perfect posion because he appointseople to all the different board and he has the greatestcope of control over this. melissa: i feel like there is almost no way he will come back and say, you know what? we'll sit down andruh thumbers and do the math, right? do you have any hope he will come back and do that. >> oh, absolutely.

this is question a lot of people are interestein. we certainly have the tlent here. it is a question of putting together experts inside government and outside of government andhaving tte political will to come up with an estimate. you will t get a hard number. at you're gng to get is analysis that has tradeoffs in it and, timates and --. melissa: of course. there ar no hard and fast numbers in government. we all realized that. if he doesn't come back and say yeah, we'll do it, what are you going to and hough time are you going to give him? >> well, we, it is not, we're not in the ultimatum business. we're in the recommendation business. and we ho that, that others will al encourage him to do the same thing. what we're looking for i discussion so that we can sequence these ings in order that achieves our goals at the least cost. melissa: okay. stuart, it's a good fight. let know what we can do to help. if you get aespo, please call us becse we want to know. >> very good.

thank you very much, melissa. melissa: time now for today's fuel gaugereport. you feel like the governor is going toall right away, right? i do. no, i don't oil broke a tee-day winng streak. choppy day of trading due to concerns over the fiscal cliff. crude pulled back fr seion lows. $88.50 a barrel. naral gas futures fell the fourth time in five sessions. forecasters say temperate weather is expected to continue for much of the country. whoo-h, lowering olook% for natural gasemand. >> lower compensation for ceo rex tillerson. his salary will rise to $2.7 million with a 4 1/2 million dollar bonus. tillerson will take home 5 shares of restricted stock mnufactcturers scoring deals in china. first solar will shipwo -pmegawatts worth of its panels to china early 2013. sun power is buying a 25%

stake for a solar panel and tracker venture in northern california. e is one o the most notorious mean people out there. so why not make "vogue" editor anna win tour a u.s. ambassador? it mang perfect sense. well, apparently to president obama it does. we're going to explai coming up. you ca never have too much money. ♪ . ♪

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melissa: ware joed by author and radio talk show goddess market to buy monca crowley and republican strategist. thank you for joining yes. both of you. first up, i lovthis story. the abassador wears prod. president obama is considering nominating a very fashionable 84 ambassador in e u.k. or france. though the editor, in case you had not guessed, a spokeswoman says she is not interested in diomacy. very happy with her current job. one thing that she is known fr its use of the double wears product is diplomacy. and obvioly very diplomatic.

>> don't think so. this is the way politics is done you are a big onor r bumbler for a successful presidential canidates, you usually get reward with these kinds of jobs. you are correct to point out that this woman is knownor her frosted demeanor. i hink the war special relationship between the u.s. and great britain might go down the tubes. >> ambassadors have to be nice. and that is a perequisite. again, this is a woman. absoluly right. she raised $7 million for the obama campgn which certainly gets you consideration, but a won his magaziie featred one ofhe most worst villains in the world at preent inher magazine. diplomacy and bogor don't go handn hand. melissa: and if there's anything weave learned it is so important our diplomats are. this is animportant choice. this is not like a tree to be ven away. and noit has in the past

everyone is making the point when george w. bush did this. it is not okay for anyone. >> in the past for previous presidents, and did you all di this. go to big donors, but the good people who have some diplomatic experience or business perience to know how t operate in the world. melissa: or who are friendly. i dn't know. >> president obama has done the slightly more thaothers. forty of his 59 ambassadorial appointments hbeen to top donors. that has toet arraigned in. melissa: and may have o stumbl on. i know. i was trying to make a joke. more politics. this time the future mayor of new york has beenencouraging hillary clinton to run for his fice in 2011. the maayor thinks the ig gamble with think she is a perfect fit. clinton said she is not interested in the job.

first of all, is it a step up? endo mayor of new york is abig deal. >> they do say he tandard line is that the second most important difficult job in the country is the mayor f new york city. that may o may not be true. hillary clinton wod consider this. sp down. >> is too mall a stage for her she's been on the global stage. >> only one person will convince hillary clinton to go back into the public world. that is her husband, bill clinton. and i amnhe side that says i don't ev think she wants to do ch cells after secretary of state she has bee around for awhile, taken a lot of heat. i thiik that she probably might want to just enj herlife. >> for four years and th run. >> i tok the 42nd street exi ramp and there was a huge pot hole. th first namehat came to ind was not mde cinton should fix this. of the shoe want to deal with all the municipal issues.

messa: moving on to somethi thati would love to happen. in eighthgrade girls petitiing has brought to market easy bak ovens f boys. hepetition has more han 24,0 signatures. she says her four year-old brother likes to cook. all the kids do. a packaging and promotions make it seem like cooking is only for girls. she wants her bther to know that is not wrong for him to want to be a chef. they're missing out.ner. >> it's a eat idea. absolutely. that's all i le habakkuk. that's why i'm happily married. but the eality s, gordon ramsey, the cake boss. so manyf the stars who re chefs are men. there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. >> the era of the celebrity chef. u-turn on the cooking channel or the food now work. mostly all men. they have become hugesuperstars i wassurprised it tookthis

long for somebody to say,hey, this is argeted to only girls. that is kindof sexist. >> i can't believe there that far behind.d. two small boys. everybody ha a kitchen at home. it's of fixing tings to doing things, working together. i don't even know if they think they're cooking. the bash aroundbut they all do it. redd evans, white evans. get around the hoping thing. >> andadjusted it would ke us. formerly all about boys. now they just voted to market girls. >> that's right. >> something strange going on in my houe. melissa: moving on to another petition but it has to do with focung america's defense resources. there is a current petition for the u.s. to build space superiority platform and weapon system like the dathstar by 2016. there are more than 000 signatures so ar, and those are in support. the government should spur job creation. it feels like construction and

engiering. that's exactly what ameri needs. >> a total of some lega project. listen. shovel-ready jobs. extremely happy. we know that. he can work with newt gigrich who wants alunar colony a good bipartisan project for the o of them. >> is that a hostile nme? >> i like it. >> a because we're talking about defensit woold have a huge deterrent effect to all of our enemies. if it did have too up against the death star. >> i love it. >> of the deat panel start. melissa: here is a fun one. the show's sinfeld is the funniest said, all time. 22 percent of those polled said the show was about nothing. it was the funniest show of all time. >>ooking at the top five or ten biggest r greatest comees, what shocked me is that i lovlucy is t even in the top